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“You cut off his head,” Emmalee laughed.
“Shh you, I know what I’m doing,” Rachel chided, but she aimed the lens higher this time.
“What are you two doing?” Rachel’s husband walked into the kitchen to find his wife and daughter taking pictures of their newborn in a bowl of cereal.
“Mom is taking a picture with the baby and the craving she had while she was pregnant with him.” Emmalee chimed. “Why didn’t you do that with me?”
“We did,” Rachel replied, this time missing the bowl in the photograph. “You were ranch flavored Doritos chips.”
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
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Here’s mine. Be advised; having fathers like this can lead to terminal embarrassment. http://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/picture-it-and-write-embarassing/
Enjoy
Joe
Fathers! I read your comment four different times and read “feathers.” I was all sorts of confused; I may need to get my eyes checked.
So precious, and what a wonderful way to start the contributions.
Your post made me chuckle delightedly! Thank you very much for the post this week!
Here’s mine for the week! Hope you all enjoy it. I really need to start posting these on my blog, but I still haven’t fully gotten down to using my website!
“The Voyage of the Santa Marina”
We try too hard to be creative,
When in the past it came so easy.
we could find the time to set sail,
In a cardboard box on a green grass sea;
To lands so far away.
We found the time to be delighted,
In the assorted colors of wrappers and cereals;
And imagined them like gold and gems,
To barter and to steal from our friends
On our green grass sea.
We tied our friends to trees
Down on their knees,
Threatening to make them walk the plank
Right off the side of your mighty ship,
The great “Santas Marina”.
We’d laugh and we sing, as we danced,
Stabbing sticks into their backs.
They’d stiffle their giggles,
And pretend to cry, “I’m too young to die”
And we’d untie them all while the ship
Is tossing due to a gale of wind,
As the sea begins to chop and swerve;
“Batten down the poop deck mates,”
Yell’s the captain! To all the ingrates.
Then mother would call out into the yard,
As it was getting late, and a storm was coming
Hard from the west, and lightning had struck
The ground, and you picked up your things
And waved goodbye to your friends,
For this had finally come to an end,
And you docked your cardboard ships
In the port of “dad’s rusty old garage.”
Apologized to mom, for ransacking the cereal,
And marched off to play with your toys,
Knowing that you’ll imagine forever.
No matter what they say.
Lovely take on the picture Devin.
Thank you very much I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
great, great poem. What a capture of “playing” moments, life back then, and how you made me live again in that mindset. Thanks. A job well done. Randy
I miss all those games we were able to play as children! We get so caught up in everything. The closest I get to do things like this anymore is Dungeons and Dragons! Thanks for reading it!
Imagination is a wonderful thing. Very good piece.
It’s such a glorious and beautiful thing that I don’t know what we’d as a species would do without! Thanks for reading!
I seem to remember some little pirates getting in trouble for whacking each other with toy swords.
Toy Swords are and will always be the best!
So light hearted. I’m glad I could inspire a chuckle out of you and appreciate that you contribute here since you haven’t gotten your site all figured out yet.
Here’s mine
A great story built on dialogue and a funny idea. Mine is a bit long this week, hope you still enjoy it.
It was accidently posted as an IMAGE post – I have reposted here
http://awritersfountain.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/picture-it-write-baby-vision/
Awesome! I’m strongly in the no babies no thank you party, but I could still understand Charlotte even if I didn’t relate.
Hello,
I have some photographs to contribute. Please let me know the procedure for doing so. Many thanks.
Hank Kellner
Hi Hank, that’s fantastic! Please e-mail ermilia@live.com.au to submit pictures or if you have a website where you have several displayed, we can poke around there.
http://terry1954.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/picture-it-write-may-52013/
sorry Ermilia, I forgot to place the contribute logo
That’s alright, we really appreciate it when people do, but it’s not necessary. You can also put it in your sidebar so you don’t have to remember each week.
Thanks!
thanks for letting me know. I usually place it there
My mom has a masters in psychology so I was immediately running through a list of possible things that could cause this. Wouldn’t have associated it with color though; very interesting ending.
This was a little bit of a challenge for me, because I thought yours said everything that I could about it.
This is my take, several years later. 🙂 I hope you like it!
http://gotmeghan.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/picture-it-write-why-me-god-why-me/
Bahahahaha oh that last line kills me.
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I loved your story this week. Doritos indeed. Ha. Very funny.
Here’s mine:
BABY Bran Cereal
http://thewritersvillage.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/baby-bran-cereal-picture-it-and-write-or-read-it-and-weep/
Randy
“…then disregard the warnings…” I don’t remember if it was What Would You Do, or another hidden camera show, but there was one that showed a microwave exploding and some clear safety issues. People were offered $100 to testify that they use it all of the time and it’s completely safe. Scary how many of them put $100 over the safety of others.
This is really sweet, literally 🙂
My second baby story of the day, and equally as…me…as the one from which it continues 🙂 http://starvingactivist.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/picture-it-write-5-may-2013-witch-versus-warlock-2/
Cute! I love his confusion and the assessment about the colored rings.
I love the pregnancy cravings! Isn’t it amazing how cravings can be so different from one baby to another? Emmalee was obviously the salty kid. 🙂
Super short one from me: Froot Loops for Breakfast.
Can’t breathe, laughing too hard.
realistic and sweet take on the picture
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Do find my contribution here:
http://call2read.com/2013/05/07/picture-it-write-plastic-loops/
:O where did he go?! I don’t like cliff hangers unless they’re in my own book 😉 I hope this continues.
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My attempt this week – http://jotteddots.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/virtually-real/
Hope you like it 🙂
Awe, I like the sentiment at the end, but people like that just sound like art snobs to me. Sometimes blue curtains are just blue curtains.
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Omg I totally forgot to pin this back here! Anyway here’s my contribution: http://evilnymphstuff.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/woman-abuse/